happened unto some part of Italy, when by the forcibleness of the
sea, called Superum, it cut off Sicily from the continent of
Calabria, as appeareth in Justin in the beginning of his fourth
book. Also there chanced the like in Zeeland, a part of Flanders.

And also the cities of Pyrrha and Antissa, about Palus Meotis; and
also the city Burys, in the Corinthian Gulf, commonly called Sinus
Corinthiacus, have been swallowed up with the sea, and are not at
this day to be discerned: by which accident America grew to be
unknown, of long time, unto us of the later ages, and was lately
discovered again by Americus Vespucius, in the year of our Lord
1497, which some say to have been first discovered by Christopher
Columbus, a Genoese, Anno 1492.

The same calamity happened unto this isle of Atlantis six hundred
and odd years before Plato's time, which some of the people of the
south-east parts of the world accounted as nine thousand years; for
the manner then was to reckon the moon's period of the Zodiac for a
year, which is our usual month, depending a Luminari minore.

So that in these our days there can no other main or island be found
or judged to be parcel of this Atlantis than those western islands,
which now bear the name of America; countervailing thereby the name
of Atlantis in the knowledge of our age.

Then, if when no part of the said Atlantis was oppressed by water
and earthquake, the coasts round about the same were navigable, a
far greater hope now remaineth of the same by the north-west, seeing
the most part of it was since that time swallowed up with water,
which could not utterly take away the old deeps and channels, but,